a. [ad. L. virescent-, virescens, pres. pple. of virescĕre to become green.] Greenish; turning or becoming green. Also fig.
1803. Curtis’s Bot. Mag., XVII. No. 643. Corolla regular, deeply six-parted, virescent upwards, within thickset with liver-coloured confluent dots.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XX. 324. In the most flourishing and virescent condition of any pool, ditch, or otherwise in the empire.
1844. Fraser’s Mag., XXX. 326/2. Virescent juvenility or green old age.
1881. T. Hardy, Laodicean, V. ii. The summer … tipping every twig with a tiny sprout of virescent yellow.
1882. Garden, 1 July, 12/3. He also exhibited … some virescent flowers of Auricula.
